248 Home Remedies for Earache

Ice pack

I woke up at 2am with a bad ear ache. I went on a couple different websites
and on one I found something that seemed like it would work. It said put an
ice pack or sock full of rice on your hurting ear. I choose the ice pack.
It helped do much and I was able to go back to bed.

October 16 2015

Bob from Ohio

105

Shower

I took a shower at 2:34am and then I dried my ear and put some ear drops in
my aching ear. I would really like to sleep at night but with an ear ache I
know that's hard for some people I have had this ear ache for three days
now and nothing has seemed to work so far but the shower helped a lot so
does some ibreprophren and ear drops! TRY IT,IT REALLY WORKS!

June 29 2015

Harlir from The United states

813

Owwww!!!

Omg, so this may sound weird, but all I have to say is finger in the ear!!!
Okay, bear with me. I'm 14 and I have a date tomorrow, so you can believe I
want to get rid of my terrible earache. It hurt so bad, so I took my index
finger and placed it inside of my ear and then my thumb and made kinda like
a V with it outside my ear and began to rub both fingers up and down and in
little circles GENTLY until I heard popping in the ear.
When I heard the popping I kept going. After about 5 minutes of that I
washed my hands and took some ibuprofen and FINALLY went to sleep. It was
such an easy way to get rid of it without waking up my parents. Yay! Date
time!

June 11 2015

Reina from Somewhere

2932

Thank god

I was trying to find something to get the pain away and I found this page
and I saw that almost everyone did the vicks thing so I tried it and it
worked! Now I can go back to sleep try it.

June 10 2015

Paulina from San Antonio

2211

Do not put hydrogen peroxide in your ear

It eats the flesh that is in your ear it feels like it is helping but its
not trust me I am 14 and it does not help.

June 01 2015

Madkid from No were you need to know

1134

Vicks and hot damp wash cloth

I found this remedy on here and it worked right away. My 6 year old was in
tears over the pain. I put Vicks around his ear and then I put some on a
cotton, placed it in his ear like an earbud and then put a warm wash cloth
over it. He fell right to sleep. Thanks guys.

May 20 2015

Alicia from Brooklyn

3617

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Works as I seen

I have been covering from a chest infection and turned out to get a bad ear
ache from 7 to half past 1 in the morning tried loads of things did not
work then I tried rubbing Vicks around your ear not in your ear and getting
a hot water bottle cloth etc and placing it in your ear for as long as u
need. Might not stop the pain completely but lowers the pain right down to
where u can get back to rest.

May 06 2015

Laddie from UK

66

Ear ache

I read through all these remedies and found the common thread seemed to be
heat. I could not stand another second of this pain. So I remembered years
ago of getting relief by taking a SHOWER. The steam and warmth of the
shower helped immensely and I was finally able to sleep. This a.M. The ear
ache is gone.

April 25 2015

M Grant from Kansas City

712

Garlic clove and netti pot

I was in excruciating pain and with all my might got on google and found
this website. I seen use a garlic clove. So that what I did I grabbed a
garlic clove crushed it open like normally then broke off a piece big
enough that in wouldn't enter my ear canal but no big enough that it would
set in my ear (kinda like ear buds). Any ways, after an hour it started to
feel better but I was still hurting so I started to boil some water and
hover over it. I really think the combination help relief the pain because
after just a min it began popping back to normal. I highly recommend this
method. It really works.

April 07 2015

Jillian S from Vegas

71

Best remedy ever!!

I honestly didn't think Vicks and a warm washcloth would work. But I woke
up about three hours ago in serious pain. My hearing pad did nothing. I
took some ibuprofen... Nothing. So lastly, I put Vicks around my ear and
lied down on a warm washcloth. I can FEEL my earache going down. I am so
glad I did this!!!!

February 23 2015

Marissa from United States

2812

Earache 10 year old

Vicks vaporub

You get a cotton ball and you put some of the Vicks on it., then you put
the cotton ball with the ointment into your ear. Don't stuff it to far but
put it in a little like an ear plug. Then you get a heating pad or hot
towel, or even a moist hot cloth and you place it over your ear. Wait until
5 to 10 minutes after the ointment starts to cool in your ear.. I did this
and it worked great.